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ECON 200 - Principles of Macroeconomics
This course deals with the concepts of national income, monetary and fiscal policy, inflation, unemployment, and economic growth.
Prerequisites & Notes
None
Credits: 3
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ECON 205 - Principles of Microeconomics
This course deals with the market system, the pricing mechanism, industry market structure, and the distribution of income via the factors of production.
Credits: 3
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ECON 301 - Economics of Decision-Making
This course analyzes economic principles at the intermediate level. Economic principles are applied to the process of managerial decision-making. Topics covered include demand theory, consumer analysis, theory of cost and production, profit maximization, and decision-making within the various market structures of American capitalism.
Prerequisites & Notes
ECON 200 and 205.
Credits: 3
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ECON 302 - Managerial Economics II
This course continues to apply economic principles to additional areas of managerial decision-making. Special attention is paid to the market for economic resources, practical pricing decisions, regulatory influences on business activity, and the organizational structure of the firm. Emphasis is on current issues, including the special considerations posed in choosing policy alternatives in responding to contemporary economic problems.
Prerequisites & Notes
ECON 301.
Credits: 3
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ECON 310 - Money and Banking
This course discusses the nature and function of money, credit, and monetary standards, and the role of the banking system in the economy. Topics include commercial banking, financial intermediaries, monetary theory and policy, the role of the Federal Reserve in stabilization policy, and international monetary economics.
Prerequisites & Notes
ECON 200 and 205.
Credits: 3
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ECON 315 - Business and Government
This course focuses on how businesses interact with government and society. Government (executive, legislative, regulatory, judicial, and international governments) and society (societal institutions, news media, and public sentiment) affect how firms conduct business, and businesses must develop political/nonmarket strategies to interact effectively with government and society that are integrated with their market strategies for economic profits. The international business, government and society interaction is contrasted between the USA and Japan, the European Union, and China. Case studies are used extensively.
Prerequisites & Notes
ECON 200 and 205 or permission of Instructor.
Credits: 3
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ECON 350 - Economics of Sports
The central focus of this course is on models of sport leagues and what can be learned from those models to answer public policy questions concerning sports. Selected topics from the extensive literature on the economics of sports are used e.g., franchise values, pay for performance, urban financing of stadiums, antitrust laws, and the profit motive in sport leagues.
Prerequisites & Notes
ECON 200 and ECON 205.
Credits: 3
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ECON 365 - International Economics
International Economics is concerned with the effects upon economic activity of international differences in resources, consumer choices, and the institutions that affect them. It seeks to explain the patterns and consequences between the inhabitants of different countries, including trade, investment and migration issues. This course incorporates both international trade and international finance.
Prerequisites & Notes
ECON 200
Credits: 3
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ECON 400 - Economics of Healthcare
The economics of the healthcare industry are reviewed with reference to the provision, distribution, supply, demand, and consumption of healthcare services. This course focuses on the relevance of economic analytic techniques and their application to processes of health resource allocation.
Prerequisites & Notes
ECON 200 and 205
Credits: 3
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EDUC 100 - Introduction to Education
Students become acquainted with the field of education, the teaching profession, the diversity of learners in US schools, historical and philosophical foundations of education, the study and practice of teaching, and career options for educators. Special emphasis is placed on the development of a preliminary philosophy of education and an electronic portfolio.
Credits: 2
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EDUC 162 - Exceptional Children
This introductory course is offered for teachers of students with special needs in inclusion settings. The characteristics and problems of children with disabilities and the differences in their learning styles and behaviors in the classroom are examined. The course provides a general overview of federal and state requirements in regard to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), and Section 504.
Credits: 3
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EDUC 210 - Children’s Literature
This course familiarizes students with a variety of classical and contemporary prose and poetry and its ability to enrich children’s lives by meeting their needs for beauty, fantasy, knowledge, and emotional support. Students draw on the power of story for making connections between learning and discovery. Writing activities for extending literature across the curriculum are included in each class session.
Credits: 3
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EDUC 232 - Teaching Elementary Mathematics through the MA Curriculum Frameworks
Through this course students learn to develop objectives, methods, and materials for the teaching of standards-based mathematics in grades one to six. The course integrates constructivist theory, cooperative learning and thematic teaching. Students design and implement developmentally appropriate learning experiences and authentic assessment tools utilizing differentiated instruction methodology to address the needs and abilities of a variety of learners. Topics of study support the Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks, MA state teacher test, and the NCTM standards and goals. This course includes a 45 hour pre-practicum.
Credits: 2
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EDUC 234 - Curriculum, Methods, and Organization for Secondary Teachers
In this course, students learn lesson plan development, methods of instruction, and curriculum organization for middle school and high school teaching. Questioning techniques, alternative teaching-learning strategies, classroom innovation, the use of technology and audiovisual media, and the organization of time and teaching material are included. Individualization of teaching is stressed.
Credits: 3
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EDUC 237 - Foundations of Multicultural Education
This course introduces students to Multicultural Education theory and practice with a special emphasis on content integration, cross-cultural competencies, and the structural (political, economic, social) and psychological dimensions of oppression. The course will enable prospective teachers to see the interconnectedness of multiple forms of oppression (race, class, gender, sexual orientation, ability, religion, culture and language) and their impact on access to an equitable quality public education in the United States.
Credits: 3
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EDUC 238 - Pre-Practicum in Elementary/Special Education/Early Childhood Education Fieldwork and Seminar
This pre-practicum is designed to initiate second or third year students into the teaching field through college supervised fieldwork in a suburban early childhood or elementary classroom. Students spend forty-five hours in a classroom under the guidance of an experienced classroom teacher. During the pre-practicum, students observe and record children’s behavior including children with disabilities, assist individuals, conduct small group lessons and prepare at least two model lessons for evaluation by the college supervisor.
Credits: 1
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EDUC 262 - Special Education in the Regular Classroom
This course provides the classroom teacher with the understanding, concepts, and techniques necessary for successful integration of children with special needs into regular classes. The focus is on helping the successful teacher meet the special needs of atypical children in elementary schools. IEP development, learning styles, instructional and behavioral strategies to promote success for all students are addressed.
Prerequisites & Notes
EDUC 162
Credits: 3
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EDUC 305 - Teaching Social Studies through the MA Curriculum Frameworks
This course introduces prospective teachers to social studies education in elementary and early childhood classes. It facilitates disciplined reflective inquiry into the education process through the interaction of theory and practice. Students will investigate the rationale and purposes for social studies, create personal philosophies related to the teaching of social studies, become familiar with the MA History and Social Studies Frameworks, demonstrate their understandings of various teaching methods and strategies, and incorporate “best practice” into their teaching of the content found in the MA Curriculum Frameworks. Emphasis on differentiated instruction methodologies to meet the needs of a variety of learning styles and abilities in conjunction with the IEP process will also be investigated.
Credits: 2
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EDUC 318 - Tutorial Pre-Practicum
This course gives secondary students their first field work experience. They visit schools, observe teaching, teach classes, and arrange for tutorial work in their content area with pupils who require special help. Students develop and utilize teaching objectives, procedures, and tests to evaluate the achievement of objectives. Students meet regularly with College faculty to discuss their progress toward accomplishing their objectives.
Prerequisites & Notes
Student must be an official candidate for teacher licensure.
Credits: 3
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EDUC 327 - Methods of Teaching Reading and Language Arts in Early Childhood and Elementary Classrooms
Reading, writing, listening and speaking are integrated through a balanced approach to teaching reading and the language arts. Through course work and classroom teaching, students analyze reading theory, research and practice. Topics include first and second language acquisition, differential instruction of a variety of learning styles and abilities, emergent literacy, phonemic awareness, phonics, organizing literacy instruction, assessment and evaluation including the IEP process. Course requirements include 75 hours in an early childhood or elementary supervised prepracticum experience.
Prerequisites & Notes
Passing scores on the MTEL Communication and Literacy tests.
Credits: 4.5
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EDUC 329 - Sheltered English Instruction across the Curriculum
Participants become familiar with teaching students from a variety of cultures, examine the impact of second language acquisition under teaching, and practice strategies for use of their licensure programs to increase the reading, writing, speaking, and listening performance of English Language Learners by designing and practicing strategies that are relevant to their education major through a fieldwork component.
Credits: 3
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EDUC 330 - PrePracticum in Literacy Instruction for PreK-6
Students spend a minimum of 60 clock hours in inclusive and substantially separate pre-K-6 classrooms that service learners who are linguistically diverse and have identified learning differences. During the prepracticum, students observe and record learners behaviors, assist individuals, conduct small group and all class lessons under the guidance of the supervising teacher.
Credits: 1.5
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EDUC 361 - Field Experience in a Non-School Setting
This is a voluntary educational experience in a non-school setting. Typically, students work in such sites as hospitals, museums, nature preserves, child care centers, and summer camps.
Credits: 3
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EDUC 364 - Pre-Practicum-Teaching and Special Issues in Secondary Education
This pre-practicum provides experience in high school teaching while concurrently dealing with a range of common problems occurring in secondary schools. Issues such as students’ and teachers’ rights, racism, sexism, equality, and special needs of individuals are considered. The course emphasizes integration of theory with practice.
Prerequisites & Notes
Student must be an official candidate for teacher licensure.
Credits: 3
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EDUC 442 - Educational Assessment and the IEP Process
This course acquaints students with formal and informal techniques for assessing and recording the performance of students. Alternative forms of assessment and traditional measurement instruments are used. Use of educational data in the IEP process will be explored.
Prerequisites & Notes
EDUC 162 and 262.
Credits: 3
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EDUC 455 - Early Childhood Curriculum and Care
The participants examine the research for making thoughtful and informed decisions about early childhood education and care. Topics of study include the importance of play; developing appropriate social/emotional, cognitive/language, and physical environments; working with infants, toddlers, preschoolers and primary-aged children; and the importance of working with families of young children. Participants evaluate the impact of parenting roles and responsibilities on strengthening the well-being of individuals and families. (Meets initial licensing requirements for early childhood and health).
Credits: 3
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EDUC 457 - Organization and Administration of Preschool Programs
This course examines administration of day care and early childhood education programs, including program design, inclusionary programs for children with and without special needs, licensing requirements, funding and budgeting, personnel roles, management, and the day-to-day administration of a center. This course fulfills part of the requirements for Office for Children certification as a Director I day care administrator.
Credits: 3
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EDUC 461 - Teaching Practicum for Teachers of Students with Moderate Disabilities (PK-8)
This culminating experience gives students the opportunity to teach students with mild and moderated disabilities who are in an inclusion classroom. The supervised
teaching experience is under the guidance of an experienced, fully certified special education teacher at the elementary school level for a total of 150 to 300 hours. Each
student is required to meet the professional standards for teachers of students with moderate disabilities. Students attend a weekly seminar conducted in conjunction with
practicum. Site assignments are made in consultation with and by permission of the Office of Educator Preparation.
Credits: 5-10
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EDUC 463 - Practicum Seminar
This course taken concurrently with a Student Teaching Practicum is designed to help students become reflective teachers by providing a forum for collaborative, critical inquiry based on their student teaching experience. The course offers opportunities and frameworks for thinking about and analyzing classroom situations, the teaching-learning process, classroom management, legal and ethical obligations, cthe IEP process, urrent issues in education, and professional goals and development.
Credits: 2
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EDUC 464 - Middle School Practicum
This culminating experience gives students the opportunity to plan, organize, and
manage a middle school classroom for eight to fifteen weeks. Students seeking licensure must complete a minimum of 300 hours. Students who wish to position themselves for a second initial license at the middle school level may complete 150 hours at the middle school and 150 hours at the high school. Students must have passed MTEL exams and courses designated by their program as well as having advanced standing in the Education Department.
Prerequisites & Notes
EDUC 318, 364, and advanced standing in the Education Department. Student must have passed MTEL exams and courses designated by their program.
Credits: 5-10
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EDUC 465 - High School Practicum
This culminating experience gives students the opportunity to plan, organize, and
manage a high school classroom for eight to fifteen weeks. Students seeking
licensure must complete a minimum of 300 hours. Students who wish to position
themselves for a second initial license at the middle school level may complete 150
hours at the middle school and 150 hours at the high school. Students must have passed MTEL exams and courses designated by their program as well as having advanced standing in the Education Department.
Prerequisites & Notes
EDUC 318, 364, and advanced standing in the Education Department. Student must have passed MTEL exams and courses designated by their program.
Credits: 5-10
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EDUC 466 - Practicum PreK to K
This culminating experience gives students the opportunity to plan, organize, and manage an early childhood classroom for eight weeks. Students complete a minimum of 150 hours at the preschool through K level. (Either EDUC 466 or 467 must be in a setting that includes children with special needs for part of the school day.)
Prerequisites & Notes
Student must have passed MTEL exams and courses designated by their program.
Credits: 5
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EDUC 467 - Practicum 1-2
This culminating experience gives students the opportunity to plan, organize, and
manage an elementary classroom for eight weeks. Students complete a minimum of 200 hours at first or second grade level. (Either EDUC 466 or 467 must be in a setting
that includes children with special needs for part of the school day.)
Prerequisites & Notes
Student must have passed MTEL exams and courses designated by their program.
Credits: 5
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EDUC 468 - Elementary Practicum
This culminating experience gives the students the opportunity to accept full
responsibility for planning, organizing and manageing an elementary classroom for at
least one week. Students are placed in an elementary fieldwork classroom for five days per week for fifteen weeks. The student is required to demonstrate mastery at the entry level of all the Principles of Effective Teaching of the licensed classroom teacher. The practicum is taken concurrently with EDUC 463, a seminar for student teachers. The Practicum must be full-time for one semester and must include a minimum of 300 clock hours at the practicum site. The student must take clear instructional responsibilities of the teaching role for at least half of this time and full responsibilities for a substantial period. Practicum time credits are given for
the following activities:
1. observtaion and participation;
2. actual teaching (in-charge);
3. any officially-assigned school duties;
4. conferences.
Students and school supervisors should keep a written record of how time is alloted to these functions.
Prerequisites & Notes
Student must have passed MTEL exams and courses designated by their program.
Credits: 5-10
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EDUC 469 - Practicum
Arrangements must be made individually with the department.
Prerequisites & Notes
Student must have passed MTEL exams and courses designated by their program.
Credits: 5-10
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EDUC 471 - Learning, Teaching, and Technology
This course integrates technology with meaningful learning and teaching. The goal of this course is to demonstrate how technology helps to fulfill the new vision for learning and teaching described by state and national frameworks. The emphasis is on designing and implementing projects through technology that offer students the opportunity to construct new knowledge, develop collaboration skills, apply knowledge to new situations, and integrate subjects across the curriculum.
Prerequisites & Notes
CISC 105 or equivalent.
Credits: 3
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EMSM 114 - CPR, Health Care Provider
The CPR course prepares the student to mitigate those situations resulting in foreign-body airway obstruction and sudden cardiac arrest in adults, infants, and children. The training includes manual, mechanical, and electronic techniques. Successful completion results in certification from the American Heart Association.
Credits: 0.5
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EMSM 115 - Emergency Medical Technician-Part I
EMT Part I is the first semester of a two semester course to prepare the student for EMT Part II and ultimately for state and national EMT certification. The course includes an introduction to Emergency Medical Services, patient assessment, patient airway management, and treatment of medical emergencies.
Prerequisites & Notes
EMSM 114 or AHA BLS Healthcare Provider certification.
Credits: 4
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EMSM 116 - Emergency Medical Technician - Part II
EMT Part II is the second semester of a two semester courses to prepare the student for state and national EMT certification. The course includes trauma management, OB/GYN management, pedicatrics, and EMS ambulance operations and a clinical and field experience.
Prerequisites & Notes
EMSM 115
Credits: 4
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EMSM 135 - EMS Career Planning
Lectures and discussions provide an overview of EMS systems, areas of specialization, legislative processes, and regulatory processes and problem solving. Students are required to study the issues in EMS and respond to them employing critical thinking.
Credits: 3
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EMSM 150 - EMT-Intermediate
This course includes detailed patient assessment, advanced treatment of shock, pre-hospital intravenous therapy, endotracheal intubation and other advanced airway control measures.
Prerequisites & Notes
EMSM 115 or permission of the medical director.
Credits: 4
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EMSM 160 - EMT-Intermediate Clinical Affiliation
This is a clinical practicum consisting of one half-semester of performing invasive procedures in local hospitals under the direct supervision of physicians, nurses, and technicians. Areas of affiliation include the emergency department, intravenous therapy team, respiratory therapy department, and the operating room. Students are required to document the successful completion of the following skills endotracheal intubations, intravenous insertions, and patient assessments. Documentation of clinical case studies is also required.
Prerequisites & Notes
CORI, 3.0 average in EMSM 150 or permission of the medical director.
Credits: 1.5
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EMSM 186 - Intermediate Field Internship
This course consists of one half-semester of pre-hospital care internship performing invasive procedures under the supervision of certified preceptors.
Prerequisites & Notes
EMSM 160.
Credits: 1.5
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EMSM 200 - EMT-Paramedic I
This course begins the paramedic program and includes instruction in the roles and responsibilities of the paramedic, legal aspects of EMS, stress management, rescue and hazardous materials training, medical terminology, patient assessment, advanced airway management, pathophysiology and treatment of shock, burn trauma therapy, and pre-hospital pharmacology.
Prerequisites & Notes
EMSM 115 and permission of the instructor.
Credits: 4
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EMSM 201 - Pre-Hospital Trauma Life Support
This course provides a philosophic overview to prehospital trauma care, stressing the need to identify and consider the multisystem trauma patient as a unique entity with specific needs. The course also provides the prehospital provider with a specific body of knowledge related to the assessment and care of the trauma patient. Successful completion of the course results in certification at the provider level.
Prerequisites & Notes
EMSM 200 or permission of the instructor.
Credits: 1
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EMSM 211 - Basic Cardiac Life Support Instructor
The BCLS instructor course provides the student with the core training in skills and methodology to teach cardiac life support under the auspices of the American Heart Association. The course includes discussion of the methodologies of teaching in various cultural settings, and a teaching practicum with an experienced AHA-BCLS Instructor.
Prerequisites & Notes
EMSM 114 or permission of Instructor/Trainer.
Credits: 2
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EMSM 250 - EMT-Paramedic II
This course includes instruction in cardiovascular anatomy and physiology, and assessment and management of cardiac emergencies, as well as mechanical, electrical, and pharmacological intervention according to national advanced life support standards. Students learn electrocardiograph monitoring, dysrhythmia recognition and treatment, and cardiovascular pharmacology and administration.
Prerequisites & Notes
EMSM 200.
Credits: 4
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EMSM 251 - Advanced Cardiac Life Support
This course prepares the student to mitigate those medical situations resulting in foreign body airway obstruction and sudden cardiac arrest in adults, infants, and children using manual, mechanical, pharmaceutical, and electronic therapies. Successful completion results in certification from the American Heart Association.
Prerequisites & Notes
EMSM 200 or permission of the instructor.
Credits: 1
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EMSM 300 - EMT-Paramedic III
This course completes the didactic portion of the paramedic program. It includes recognition and treatment of endocrine emergencies, central nervous system disorders, the acute abdomen, anaphylaxis, alcoholism, environmental and behavioral emergencies, pediatric emergencies, and an all-program review.
Prerequisites & Notes
EMSM 250.
Credits: 4
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EMSM 301 - Pediatric Advanced Life Support
This course prepares the student to recognize and treat foreign body airway obstruction and sudden cardiac arrest in infants and children using manual, mechanical, and electronic therapies. Successful completion results in certification from the American Heart Association.
Prerequisites & Notes
EMSM 300 or permission of the instructor.
Credits: 1
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EMSM 302 - Pediatric Educ/Pre-Hosp Professional
The Pediatric Education for Prehospital Professionals is designed to give prehospital professionals the education, skills, and confidence they need to treat pediatric patients effectively at the highest prehospital level.
Credits: 1
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EMSM 325 - System Status Management
This course uses the United States Department of Transportation’s emergency dispatcher standard curriculum to provide the knowledge, skills, and tools to deal with the general public when rendering emergency assistance by telephone. The course also provides students with the mechanisms to direct appropriate resources to the scene of an illness or injury.
Credits: 2
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EMSM 335 - Plan and Design of Emergency Vehicles and Facilities
This course acquaints students with the process of planning and design of emergency medical services facilities and vehicles. A study of the managerial roles in this process is emphasized, as well as design technologies, safety, and maintenance. Select facilities and EMS vehicles are studied in detail.
Credits: 2
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EMSM 340 - EMS Continuing Education and EMT-Basic Refresher
This course provides the basic refresher and continuing education requirements for recertification as an EMT-Basic.
Credits: 2
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EMSM 350 - EMT-Paramedic Clinical Affiliation
In this course, students are required to document successful performance of invasive
skills under the supervision and direction of licensed hospital personnel. Areas
of affiliation include the emergency department, the intravenous therapy team,
the operating room, labor and delivery, ICU/CCU, the psychiatric unit, and pediatrics.
Credits: 4
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EMSM 374 - Fundamentals of Search and Rescue
FUNSAR is designed to prepare the student to participate in search and rescue as a member of a search team. The course covers topics such as visual human-tracking, survival, wilderness first aid, land navigation, search tactics, tactical aspects of the Incident Management System, and lost person behavior. Successful completion of the course results in certification from the National Association for Search and Rescue.
Credits: 2
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EMSM 375 - Search and Rescue Management
This course provides skills and materials that include decision-making practice in determining missing person detectability and survivability, and statistical and topographic analysis of lost person behavior. Successful completion results in certification from the National Association for Search and Rescue.
Credits: 3
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EMSM 386 - EMT-Paramedic Field Internship
Students are assigned to licensed advanced life support ambulance services and work under the direction of qualified paramedic preceptors. Procedures include field endotracheal intubation, intravenous therapy, intravenous drug administration, and advanced cardiac life support care.
Credits: 4
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EMSM 420 - EMS Management Senior Project
This guided individual study is to be completed in the final semester of the senior year. Topics must be pertinent to one or more areas of emergency medical services and are selected with the counsel of the course instructor.
Credits: 3
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EMSM 486 - EMS Management Internship
In this course, students complete supervised experience divided into two or more of the following EMS concentrations: operations management, systems implementation, regulation, legislation, and product research and development.
Credits: 3
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ENGL 100 - Writing Studio
Writing studios are small support groups that provide supplemental instruction and assistance to students who need extra help meeting the requirements of ENGL 113 and ENGL 114. Through self-assessment and writing samples, identified students enroll for one credit along with regular enrollment in ENGL 113 and ENGL 114. Grades are determined by attendance, participation, and completion of assigned work. This course can be repeated once, for a total of 2 credits.
Credits: 1
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ENGL 113 - College Writing I
This course provides instruction in the skills of written communication, including sentence structure, paragraph building, and the organization and development of expository essays. Students are introduced to strategies for critical reading, basic research methods, and documentation of sources. Computer-based writing is integral to the course.
Credits: 3
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ENGL 114 - College Writing II
This course continues the work of College Writing I, but focuses on more complex expository and argumentative writing, critical textual analysis, and more sophisticated research strategies. Computer-based writing is integral to the course.
Credits: 3
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ENGL 160 - Introduction to Literary Studies
This course is an introduction to the study of literature. Students learn the essential tools of close reading and critical analysis of literature in its major genres: poetry, fiction, and drama. Students also become familiar with a variety of interpretive theories and methods in the study of literature, and apply several of these methods in their own literary analysis.
Credits: 3
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ENGL 209 - World Literature
This course is a study and analysis of some of the greatest pieces of literature of the Western cultural heritage. Beginning with the literature of the Greeks (the epics, plays), it includes the literary genres of Italy, England, Germany, France, and America. At least eight to ten pieces of literature (including genres in addition to those above) are required reading.
Credits: 3
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ENGL 215 - Readings in Literature
This course includes readings which evaluate a variety of classical and contemporary pieces organized around a major theme, issue, genre, or event. The literature may be selected from any one or more writers or periods of the Eastern or Western worlds.
Credits: 3
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ENGL 216 - The Athlete in Literature
This course undertakes an analysis of selected prose and poetry depicting the athlete as an individual and team member. Positive values and major issues of the sport experience are explored. Such writers as Virgil, Twain, Hemingway, Lardner, Schulberg, and others are studied for their themes and literary merit.
Credits: 3
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ENGL 217 - Sports, Gambling and the Media
This course explores gambling as a cultural phenomenon in the United States, focusing particularly on the role of mass media in three major sports gambling scandals: the 1919 Black Sox, boxer Primo Carnera, and point-shaving in college basketball.
Credits: 3
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ENGL 220 - Grammar and Usage
This course examines rules of grammar and usage in writing. Recent trends in usage are given special consideration.
Credits: 3
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ENGL 225 - American Drama
This course is a study of selected playwrights representing the development of American drama from the late nineteenth century through the present. Attention will be paid to various forms of theatrical representation, including realism, melodrama, expressionism, and the avant-garde.
Credits: 3
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ENGL 226 - Creative Writing
This course introduces students to creative writing and includes fiction, poetry, and creative non-fiction. Students learn how to tap their lives for writing material and how to use that material in various writing forms.
Credits: 3
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ENGL 230 - Post-Colonial Literature
Persons who have cultural ties to countries formerly ruled by colonial powers write post-colonial literature. This poetry, drama, and prose often describes how such persons are affected by both the legacy of colonialism, the systematic occupation and domination of one country by another, and decolonization, the process by which colonies become self-governing or independent. In addition, this literature often explores strategies former colonies have used to survive in a world dominated by global capitalism. This course examines post-colonial literature written in four regions of the world: Latin America and the Caribbean, Australia and Oceania, Asia, and Africa and the Middle East.
Credits: 3
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ENGL 231 - Tutoring in English
This course gives student peer tutors some pointers on how to communicate grammar,
syntax, and spelling rules to students for whom writing is difficult. The course
also offers suggestions for helping students develop and organize content, follow
directions for writing assignments, and deal with specific writing tasks, including
the research paper.
Prerequisites & Notes
Permission of the Writing Center Director.
Credits: 1
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ENGL 232 - Tutoring in English Practicum I
This course is a practicum or internship as a peer tutor in the College Writing Center. Students tutor for a minimum of three contact hours per week throughout the semester. This course may be taken by Writing Center tutors with experience prior to the creation of ENGL 231.
Prerequisites & Notes
Permission of the Writing Center Director.
Credits: 1
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ENGL 233 - Tutoring in English Practicum II
This course is a practicum or internship as a peer tutor in the College Writing
Center. Students tutor for a minimum of three contact hours per week throughout
the semester. This course may be taken concurrently with ENGL 232.
Prerequisites & Notes
Permission of the Writing Center Director.
Credits: 1
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ENGL 234 - Student Newspaper Practicum
This course is designed to provide students with practical experience in writing, editing, headline writing, and layout of a student newspaper. Each student receives a varied weekly assignment from the editor-in-chief of the College’s student newspaper. This course may be repeated up to a maximum of eight semester hours.
Credits: 1
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ENGL 240 - Literature of Journalism
This course focuses on major non-fiction works written by American journalists, with particular emphasis on the literary and historical impact of the non-fiction genre.
Credits: 3
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ENGL 241 - American Literature I
This course focuses on a topic in American Literature prior to the Civil War (e.g., a literary movement, a focused historical period, a group of authors, a genre, or a theme.
Prerequisites & Notes
This course may be repeated (up o a total of 9 credit hours) if topics vary.
Credits: 3
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ENGL 242 - American Literature II
This course focuses on a topic in American Literature in an era from the Civil War to the present (e.g., a literary movement, a focused historical period, a group of authors, a genre, or a theme.
Prerequisites & Notes
This course may be repeated (up to a total of 9 credit hours) if topics vary.
Credits: 3
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ENGL 246 - American Short Story
This course examines the historical significance and the artistic achievement of such writers as Hawthorne, F. O’Connor, Hemingway, Updike, Salinger, Carver, and those writers in the most recent edition of Best American Short Stories. Its objective is to help students become better readers of short fiction by emphasizing class discussion and short papers.
Credits: 3
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ENGL 251 - African American Literature I
This course traces African American self-expression in autobiographical and imaginative forms from 1760 to the 1930’s, noting the educational, social, economic, political, and legal limitations within which, or against which, they were produced.
Credits: 3
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ENGL 252 - African American Literature II
This course presents African American literary works from the 1930’s into the 1980’s and relates them to the literary efforts produced by other Americans and to the folklore, history, and socio-political backgrounds from which they came.
Credits: 3
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ENGL 261 - British Literature I
This course focuses on a topic in early British literature from the beginnings to the Enlightenment (e.g., a literary movement, a focused historical period, a group of authors, a genre, or a theme).
In selected semesters, as noted in the course offerings information, the course will focus on the literature of the Middle Ages and will include an optional trip over Spring Break to London and York, England, to visit medieval sites.
Prerequisites & Notes
This course may be repeated (up to a total of 9 credits) if topics vary.
Credits: 3
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ENGL 262 - British Literature II
This course focuses on a topic in British literature from the Romantic period to the present. Possible topics include the study of a literary movement, a focused historical period, a group of authors, a genre, or a theme.
Prerequisites & Notes
This course may be repeated (up to a total of 9 credits) if topics vary.
Credits: 3
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ENGL 270 - Nature and Environmental Writers
This course is a literature course with a theme; it introduces the student to a selection of nature and environmental writers. The class examines nature writing as a unique form of writing. There are many themes to examine within this genre-how we humans find our “place” in nature and what that means to us, how science relates to literature and art, the complex relationship between wildness and civilization, as well as spiritual issues and environmental issues and responsibilities.
Credits: 3
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ENGL 272 - Native American Literature
The focus of this course is on Native American oral and literary expression. Traditional Native American biographies, speeches, and legends, and contemporary Native American short stories and novels are read.
Credits: 3
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ENGL 274 - Asian American Literature
This course examines novels, short stories, poetry, essays, and political texts written
by Asain Americans. Students will attend to the form, content and context of the readings in order to develop their critical thinking skills in relation to a number of issues, themes, and concepts which emerge out of and in relation to Asian American literature and the American racial context; exclusion, group identity, community individualism, racial identity, and immigration.
Credits: 3
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ENGL 275 - Women and Literature
In this course, students read literature written by women and study the literary tradition and critical reception of women writers. Particular emphasis is placed on the cultural position of women in the United States, emphasizing racial, ethnic, and class diversity.
Credits: 3
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ENGL 276 - Men in Literature
This course studies the dialogic relationship between various men, embodying different masculinities and literature. The study consists of two components: first, an exploration of men’s literacy and literature and second, a service-learning project that aims to create a male-positive learning experience of men’s literacy for service-providers and clients.
Credits: 3
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ENGL 301 - Advanced Composition
This course teaches selection, organization, presentation of material, and principles of writing.
Credits: 3
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ENGL 302 - Business Writing
This course includes instruction in various business writing situations, including letters, memos, reports, proposals, and job application materials. Students use their own area of study for developing suitable correspondence.
Prerequisites & Notes
ENGL 113 and ENGL 114.
Credits: 3
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ENGL 303 - Business and Professional Speaking
Individuals learn rhetorical techniques for effective speaking in the workplace in the context of their respective future careers. Students are required to make several effective oral presentations, proposals, informative lectures or briefings, progress reports, summaries, evaluations, budget reviews, etc. Participation in mock interviews and staff meetings and proper use of visual aids and equipment to enhance presentations are stressed.
Credits: 3
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ENGL 305 - Writing for the Professions
This course involves the practice and study of selected types of discourse employed in professional writing situations, preparing students for different systems of writing in their professional lives. Examples from the writing of workplace professionals are analyzed and used as models to demonstrate the transition from academic to professional writing.
Credits: 3
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ENGL 306 - Advanced Creative Writing
This advanced course is intended to develop students’ skills in one area of creative writing (i.e., fiction, poetry, or drama). Students are expected to submit several written assignments during the course of the term, to prepare detailed and close peer evaluations, and to submit a significant portfolio (several stories, ten to twelve poems) at the end of the semester.
Prerequisites & Notes
This course is for English and Communications / Sports Journalism majors and English, Creative Writing, and Professional Writing minors only.
Credits: 3
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ENGL 321 - Chaucer and the Middle Ages
This course involves close study of selections from The Canterbury Tales, and “Troilus and Criseide,” as well as other representative selections from Middle English literature.
Credits: 3
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ENGL 330 - Early Modern English Literature
This course focuses on a topic in the Early Modern Period (1485-1660) of English literature (e.g., a literary movement, author(s), a genre or form, or a theme).
Prerequisites & Notes
ENGL 113 and ENGL 114. This course may be repeated (up to a total of 9 credits) if topics vary.
Credits: 3
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ENGL 332 - The Victorian Period
This course is a study of selected authors of the period, including Tennyson, Browning, Arnold, Rosseti, and Carlyle. The course will look at the social, political, and cultural trends of the period.
Credits: 3
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ENGL 333 - English Romantic Literature
This course familiarizes the student with some of the finest poetry and prose written in early nineteenth century England.
Credits: 3
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ENGL 343 - Film as a Narrative Art
Narrative films such as On the Waterfront, All the King’s Men, and Requiem for a Heavyweight are studied and discussed in terms of character, theme, structure, and style. Similarities between cinematic technique and the adaptation of material from literature to film are explored.
Credits: 3
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